“I am quitting this commission, which is not backed by any political will,” she said, adding that her role was just an “alibi”. “I have no power as long as the security council does nothing,” she said. The UN commission of inquiry said in a statement del Ponte had informed colleagues in June of her decision to leave in the near future. Del Ponte’s departure leaves only two commissioners, Brazil’s Paulo Pinheiro and Karen Koning AbuZayd from the US. “What we have seen here in Syria, I never saw that in Rwanda, or in former Yugoslavia, in the Balkans.

Source: The Guardian August 07, 2017 01:07 UTC